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City’s energy needs can be met without power plants
- San Francisco is a first among American cities when it comes to environmental leadership.
Level-headed discussion needed on merits of waterboarding
- During a secret briefing two years ago on waterboarding and other interrogation techniques employed by the U.S. government, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood on her chair and waved her fists in the air, screaming at the top of her lungs, “Pour it on! Hurt those rats! Hurt them real bad!”
With rogue states humbled, ‘axis of evil’ vision vindicated
- President Bush was mocked and reviled after his 2002 State of the Union speech saying an “axis of evil” threatened America and its allies, but he was dead right, and it increasingly seems he has progressed in defanging the three rogue states he named.
Ambrose: Possibility of bad times no reason for bad ideas
- Oil prices are soaring, the housing slump is worsening, the dollar is declining, consumers are losing confidence, a recession might be coming and some Democrats just may be giving thanks. Bad times could be good times for them.
Ambrose: Don't overlook U.S. success in Iraq
- Impressive progress has been made in pacifying Baghdad, and this has to be heartening news to most of us, though not to some in the anti-war crowd unprepared for a sustainable Iraqi success that just might vindicate the surge strategy.
Ambrose: Free enterprise system is a capital idea
- A friend and I were talking in a coffee shop, and then two more guys briefly joined us, both highly educated, both interesting, and one of them especially provocative. He pronounced that capitalism, at its least fettered, was immoral, a form of “piracy,” and at its best — when properly bound and regulated — still amoral.
Congress working on new direction for U.S.
- One year ago, Americans entrusted their hopes and aspirations for themselves, their families and the future to a new Democratic Congress. They demanded a new direction that makes America safer, restores the American Dream for hardworking families, and restores accountability and fiscal responsibility to Washington.
Ambrose: What’s not to like about Pres. Sarkozy?
- Not only is the French president standing tough against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the powerful unions aiming to preserve his country’s corrosive welfare state, but he also took on Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” when she asked him a gossipy question about his relationship with his then-wife during taped interviews.
California’s outdated method of budgeting needs a retooling
- According to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s new $146 billion state budget will have no operating deficit. But there are serious questions about the reliability of the numbers because California, unlike other states, does not require dynamic revenue analysis, contrary to the wishes of many state Democrats.
Pete Stark’s strident talk does ill-advised bill no favor at all
- Step up to the front of the House, Pete Stark. Do your thing. Help show Americans just how fanatically ideological and stridently partisan at least one Democrat has become these days. It will help them evaluate how rational your views are, including the one that we should expand a children’s health insurance program.
Ambrose: Political opportunism explains bad timing of Turkish resolution
- It’s hard to imagine a congressional action more pointlessly provocative than passing a resolution that Turks committed genocide against Armenians some 90 years ago. But here come House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, many of her fellow Democrats, and some Republicans, with an ironclad determination to do just such a detrimental thing to their country.
Ambrose: Che Guevara was a thug
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed 40 years ago this week, and the impulse to honor him is bursting out all over. Celebrations are taking place in such places as Cuba, Bolivia and Ireland, a priest has called him a saint and hosts of other people are likewise instructing us on what a hero he was, what a moral giant, what a fierce combatant for justice in an imperialist-threatened, inhumane world.
Antrim: What is the reason for Syria’s silence?
- On Sept. 6, Israel fired up warplanes that flew deep into Syria to a site near the city of Dayr az Zawr where they executed an airstrike. Then all went silent. And by silent, I mean no one in an official capacity mentioned it. Israel went mute. Syria fell quiet.